67Firebird
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POTUS and FLOTUS at Daytona;
https://youtu.be/IhZMu0Wxvoc
POTUS/FLOTUS take a lap in the Beast;
https://youtu.be/HBbrunsOlF8
POTUS Grand Marshal speech;
https://youtu.be/B6_H6NjiIMk
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‘Merica!!
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fastman
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Glad Ryan Newman is o k.
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Glad Ryan Newman is o k.
I hope you are right Fast....but I ain’t sure he is Okay?? Just glad he ain’t dead. And wonder after looking at it 50 times how he can’t be dead.
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MB2
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Glad Ryan Newman is o k.
I hope you are right Fast....but I ain’t sure he is Okay?? Just glad he ain’t dead. And wonder after looking at it 50 times how he can’t be dead.
Keep praying, but this description of his injuries, from his Dad makes the most sense, and is probably in line with HANS and helmet improvements.
"Ryan is awake and alert, bleeding is in the front of his head but controllable, bruising on top and left side of head pretty badly, hasn't attempted to walk yet but doctors don't think he will have an issue. Remaining in ICU for tonight." @8.30 pm last night
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MB2
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NOT have an issue. Damn phone.
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MB2
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If you look, you will find a photo of him and his daughters, standing at the hospital.
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67Firebird
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Some Ryan Newman info;
https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2020/02/18/...ar-daytona-500/
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MB2
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Released from hospital.
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Amazing....seriously. Not a big Nascar fan but happened to be watching the wnd of the race. The fact that Newman survived that wreck, with barely a mark on him, is nothing short of an engineering marvel.
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67Firebird
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Here's an article, showing the pic of him leaving the hospital.
https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2020/02/19/...ital-walks-out/
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67Firebird
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Amazing....seriously. Not a big Nascar fan but happened to be watching the wnd of the race. The fact that Newman survived that wreck, with barely a mark on him, is nothing short of an engineering marvel.
That's one of the things I like so much about Monster Trucks; watching the things they can do, with so little damage to the frame, and (normally) no injuries at all to the drivers.
One example, that I filmed last month;
https://youtu.be/L9TopM3TB3E
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MB2
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67Firebird said:
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griffin said:
Amazing....seriously. Not a big Nascar fan but happened to be watching the wnd of the race. The fact that Newman survived that wreck, with barely a mark on him, is nothing short of an engineering marvel.
That's one of the things I like so much about Monster Trucks; watching the things they can do, with so little damage to the frame, and (normally) no injuries at all to the drivers.
One example, that I filmed last month;
https://youtu.be/L9TopM3TB3E
Well, here's the thing about Newman's wreck, and your film, go. A once of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right? The exact same welders and fabricators who diligently built Newman's car, and others in the Roush garages, have already been told that they make too much money, and are being released from their jobs at the end of this year. It's already happened to other teams. It's cheaper, and easier, so they tell me, to buy ready made frames and bolt on body parts, than to hire experienced engineers, fabricators and welders, who don't get complceant, who will work those extra hours, days and months, ever mindful of the safety of the human life in the car they are constructing. Not all heroes wear capes and get to hoist trophies. These are the unsung heroes in this wreck, and now the suits in head offices are tossing them under the bus.
Racing didn't come this far just to get this far. And, these folks who constructed that car just proved their worth a thousand times over.
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sptsman
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67Firebird said:
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griffin said:
Amazing....seriously. Not a big Nascar fan but happened to be watching the wnd of the race. The fact that Newman survived that wreck, with barely a mark on him, is nothing short of an engineering marvel.
That's one of the things I like so much about Monster Trucks; watching the things they can do, with so little damage to the frame, and (normally) no injuries at all to the drivers.
One example, that I filmed last month;
https://youtu.be/L9TopM3TB3E
Well, here's the thing about Newman's wreck, and your film, go. A once of prevention is worth a pound of cure, right? The exact same welders and fabricators who diligently built Newman's car, and others in the Roush garages, have already been told that they make too much money, and are being released from their jobs at the end of this year. It's already happened to other teams. It's cheaper, and easier, so they tell me, to buy ready made frames and bolt on body parts, than to hire experienced engineers, fabricators and welders, who don't get complceant, who will work those extra hours, days and months, ever mindful of the safety of the human life in the car they are constructing. Not all heroes wear capes and get to hoist trophies. These are the unsung heroes in this wreck, and now the suits in head offices are tossing them under the bus.
Racing didn't come this far just to get this far. And, these folks who constructed that car just proved their worth a thousand times over.
With all due respect to the welders and assemblers of these frames, they are not the people that designed them and created the safer environment for the drivers. They are very important people and need to do their job well (and should be compensated accordingly) but the designers/engineers of these cars are the people that made/make the real difference. Robert Hubbard is the reason the Hans Device has saved countless lives and severe brain trauma, not the people that assemble them.
And don't take this as any knock on the blue collar workers that do the day to day work in any field. They are doing good, decent, honorable and important work. But there is a reason they make what they make and guys like Robert Hubbard made what he made...
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67Firebird
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Yup, here's Larry Swim in one of the Bigfoot trucks, wearing a Hans Device.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-monste...e-24463238.html
I don't know anything about NASCAR frames, but Bigfoot has theirs made to spec by Concussion Motorsports.
Here's a few pics that Bigfoot has posted (of Bigfoot #21);
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MB2
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Actually, now the loneliest person I know at Roush, is a Princeton grad engineer.
I used to know more people there back in the 90's when Roush Racing used to transport their cars up to the wind tunnel in Ottawa.
As for life, yep the HANS makes a difference, as for fabricators, Corey LaJoie's car may have been the kid whose car struck Newman's, but his dad Randy,
was one of the first people to develop the kind of seat that allowed Ryan to walk out of that hospital. Geoff Bodine, began ddeveloping roll cages. Necessity, being the mother of invention, and all, after his own wreck. These are developments before they were part of NASCAR's rules.
The development of speed, and safety came from within the ranks of racers, so that people could actually walk away from 200 mph wrecks.
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MB2
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Lolol Onliest guy I know at Roush. Not loneliest. Isn't auto correct a blast.
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